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Michele Tine

Associate Professor of Education

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I am passionate about teaching and learning in theory and practice. My goal in the classroom is to help my students understand the science how children learn and develop, apply the principles to problems typical in the field, and transfer and adapt the information to novel contexts.

My program of research stems from my experiences as a 5th grade teacher in a low-socioeconomic urban district. The students I worked with appeared to learn in ways that were fundamentally different than students I had taught from middle- and high-socioeconomic areas. I was motivated to find out why. To understand if the neual basis of learning could be at play, I worked with a lab investigating the electrophysiological patterns of human memory. I then went on to earn a PhD in Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology. Now, I draw on empirical evidence from the fields of education, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and developmental psychology when investigating about how students learn. My current research focuses on the ways poverty is associated with and/or impacts the malleable cognitive processes that are associated with academic achievement.